Hi Nirmal,

Nirmal Seenu <[email protected]> writes:

> Fair share priority stopped working 
>
> Hi,
>
> I just noticed that the fair share priority stopped working in the last few 
> days
> and would appreciate any help in debugging this problem. I am running Slurm
> version 14.11.11 on Centos 7.2. 
>
> I am not sure when it stopped working but the only thing that I changed was
> PriorityDecayHalfLife=00:10:00 and PriorityUsageResetPeriod=WEEKLY. The
> following is the current values that I have set -- the initial value when fair
> share was working fine:
>
> PriorityType=priority/multifactor
> PriorityDecayHalfLife=00:01:00

I would think that this value for PriorityDecayHalfLife is much too
short.  The CPU-time usage will decay very rapidly, so there will be the
contribution to the priority will be the similar both for heavy users
and those who don't consume much CPU-time.  I would guess you want a
value more like a single-digit number of days.

Cheers,

Loris

> PriorityUsageResetPeriod=NONE
> PriorityWeightFairshare=10000
> PriorityWeightAge=100
> PriorityWeightPartition=10000
> PriorityWeightJobSize=10000
> PriorityMaxAge=7-0
>
> Everything seems to be fine on the database side:
>
> [root@tcs-bcm-1 ~]# sacctmgr list assoc tree
> format=cluster,account,user,fairshare
> Cluster Account User Share 
> ---------- -------------------- ---------- --------- 
> slurm_clu+ root 1 
> slurm_clu+ root root 1 
> slurm_clu+ dev 50 
> slurm_clu+ dev c 1 
> slurm_clu+ r 1 
> slurm_clu+ r a2 1 
> slurm_clu+ r a1 1 
> slurm_clu+ r b 1 
> slurm_clu+ r d 1 
> slurm_clu+ r e 1 
> slurm_clu+ r j2 1 
> slurm_clu+ r j1 1 
> slurm_clu+ r m4 1 
> slurm_clu+ r m3 1 
> slurm_clu+ r m2 1 
> slurm_clu+ r m1 1 
> slurm_clu+ r r 1 
> slurm_clu+ r s 1 
> slurm_clu+ r t 1 
>
> [root@tcs-bcm-1 ~]# sprio -l | head
> JOBID USER PRIORITY AGE FAIRSHARE JOBSIZE PARTITION QOS NICE
> 1378456 j1 385 10 0 276 100 0 0
> 1378457 j1 385 10 0 276 100 0 0
> 1378458 j1 385 10 0 276 100 0 0
>
> Relevant log entry when I restarted both slurmdbd and slurm:
> /var/log/slurmctld:
> [2016-03-22T17:47:13.533] Running as primary controller
> [2016-03-22T17:47:13.533] Registering slurmctld at port 6817 with slurmdbd.
> [2016-03-22T17:47:17.817]
> SchedulerParameters=default_queue_depth=100,max_rpc_cnt=0,max_sched_time=2,partition_job_depth=0,sched_max_job_start=0,sched_min_interval=0
>
> /var/log/slurmdbd:
> [2016-03-22T17:46:53.733] Accounting storage MYSQL plugin loaded
> [2016-03-22T17:46:53.735] error: chdir(/var/log): Permission denied
> [2016-03-22T17:46:53.735] chdir to /var/tmp
> [2016-03-22T17:46:53.744] slurmdbd version 14.11.11 started
> [2016-03-22T17:46:57.010] DBD_JOB_START: cluster not registered
> [2016-03-22T17:47:01.910] DBD_STEP_START: cluster not registered
>
> Thanks in advance for your help!
> Nirmal
>

-- 
Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.)
ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin         Email [email protected]

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